Fourth comings

a novel

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2007 by Crown Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-307-34650-6
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OCLC Number:
86109925

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At first it seems that she's living the elusive New York City dream. She's subletting an apartment with her best friend, Hope, working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree, and still deeply in love with Marcus Flutie, the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen. Of course, reality is more complicated than dreamy cliches. She and Hope share bunk beds in the "Cupcake"--the girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to "breeders," and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal, Manda, and her "genderqueer boifriend." Freelancing for an obscure journal can't put a dent in Jessica's student loans, so she's eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike most of her friends, can't postpone adulthood by going back to school. Yet it's the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that …

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Subjects

  • Darling, Jessica (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Periodicals -- Publishing -- Fiction
  • Chick lit
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction